The Pros and Cons of Life Without Parole

Appleton, Catherine; Grøver, Bent

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“…Questions of release are built into the rewards system of total institutions (Goffman 1961) and used as an incentive and mechanism for maintaining institutional discipline (Appleton and Grover 2007;Proctor and Pease 2000). Moreover, PB decisions are symbolic for they are:…”

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‘Everybody Knows that the Prisoner is Going Nowhere’: Parole Board Members’ Views about Dangerous and Severe Personality Disorder in England and Wales

Trebilcock¹,

Weaver²

2012

Int. J. Criminol. Sociol.

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Abstract:The Dangerous Severe Personality Disorder (DSPD) Programme has been a controversial initiative in England and Wales. First introduced in 1999, DSPD became a highly contested operational as opposed to diagnostic term, used to define a population convicted of violent offences who were admitted for treatment within one of four high security units established for men. The aim of this paper is to explore the outcomes of Parole Board (PB) reviews with DSPD prisoners and investigate PB members' views about DSPD. Nearly all PB members observed that the high security location of the DSPD units was more influential to their decision-making than the label of DSPD. PB members highlighted their expectation that DSPD prisoners make a journey through different levels of security before release is an appropriate consideration. A key finding was that admission to DSPD services could be seen to have disrupted a prisoner's progression and challenged PB members' conceptions of the appropriate (and likely) future progression pathways available to prisoners. These findings have implications not only for the development of the new offender personality disorder pathway in England and Wales but also for other jurisdictions seeking to respond to the longstanding question of how to respond to high risk offenders with personality disorder.

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Section: Institutional Journeys and Parole Board Decision-makingmentioning

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‘Everybody Knows that the Prisoner is Going Nowhere’: Parole Board Members’ Views about Dangerous and Severe Personality Disorder in England and Wales

Trebilcock¹,

Weaver²

2012

Int. J. Criminol. Sociol.

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“…Simultaneously they obviate a major shortcoming of the death penalty: wrongful executions. 2 Some difficulties arise, however, in that it is notoriously difficult to predict future dangerousness, especially based on a homicide committed by a teen (Appleton & Grover, 2007). Pragmatically, incapacitating someone from the teen years until natural death-including providing minimally adequate medical care in old age-is an expensive undertaking for society (Appleton & Grover, 2007).…”

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“…2 Some difficulties arise, however, in that it is notoriously difficult to predict future dangerousness, especially based on a homicide committed by a teen (Appleton & Grover, 2007). Pragmatically, incapacitating someone from the teen years until natural death-including providing minimally adequate medical care in old age-is an expensive undertaking for society (Appleton & Grover, 2007). Also, the absence of any potential for parole can mitigate some incentives for good behavior in prison (Appleton & Grover, 2007).…”

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“…Pragmatically, incapacitating someone from the teen years until natural death-including providing minimally adequate medical care in old age-is an expensive undertaking for society (Appleton & Grover, 2007). Also, the absence of any potential for parole can mitigate some incentives for good behavior in prison (Appleton & Grover, 2007).…”

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Extinguishing All Hope: Life-Without-Parole for Juveniles

Butler

2010

Journal of Offender Rehabilitation

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“…Regrettably, life without parole was originally created to offer capital juries an alternative to the death penalty in the sentencing phase. Juries are in fact less inclined to impose capital punishment when life without parole is an option, but life without parole has, as it were, taken on a life of its own as a penalty for noncapital crimes (see Appleton & Grover, 2007; Note, 2006). 5.…”

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Life Without Parole, America's Other Death Penalty

Johnson

McGunigall-Smith

2008

The Prison Journal

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Life without parole is examined as a form of death penalty, namely, death by incarceration as distinct from death by execution. Original interviews with a sample of prisoners (condemned prisoners and life-without-parole prisoners) and prison officers are used to develop a picture of the experience of life under sentence of death by incarceration. It is argued that offenders sentenced to death by incarceration do not pose a special danger to others in the prison world or in the free world and that the suffering they experience is comparable to the suffering endured by condemned prisoners. Life without parole thus emerges as a viable alternative to the capital punishment. L ife without parole is sometimes called a "true life sentence" because offenders are sentenced to spend the remainder of their natural lives in prison. A better term for this sentence might be death by incarceration, as these persons are, in effect, sentenced to die in prison. Indeed, it is argued here that the sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole can be equally as painful as the death penalty, albeit in different ways. The sentence can thus be thought of as "our other death penalty."

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The Pros and Cons of Life Without Parole

Cited by 71 publications

References 19 publications

‘Everybody Knows that the Prisoner is Going Nowhere’: Parole Board Members’ Views about Dangerous and Severe Personality Disorder in England and Wales

‘Everybody Knows that the Prisoner is Going Nowhere’: Parole Board Members’ Views about Dangerous and Severe Personality Disorder in England and Wales

Extinguishing All Hope: Life-Without-Parole for Juveniles

Life Without Parole, America's Other Death Penalty

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